An Analytical Framework For Register Studies 论文

摘要

Abstract Despite the large number of register studies that have been completed to date, there is still need for a comprehensive analytical framework. Such a framework should clearly distinguish between linguistic and nonlinguistic characterizations, and it should allow a classification of registers using both types of information. Hymes has argued that sociolinguistics should make “the systematic study of verbal repertoire” rather than “language” the “central scientific notion”(1984:44-45), and he has made repeated calls for taxonomic frameworks: The present paper has gone through multiple drafts, with several colleagues making valuable comments on earlier versions: Dwight Atkinson, Ed Finegan, Randi Gilbert, and Bill Grabe. In addition, my thinking on the paper has been facilitated by interactions with members of the Corpus Workgroup of the Text Encoding Initiative: Jeremy Clear, Gunnel Engwall, Stig Johansson, and Lou Burnard.